Efrosini Charalambous is an ONISILOS MSCA Postdoctoral Researcher at the Centre for Applied Neuroscience. She has a background in Architecture (National Technical University of Athens) and holds a Ph.D. in Architectural Space, Spatial Cognition, and Behavioural Neuroscience from University College London (UCL).

Her research interests are primarily focused on exploring how the design of the built environment impacts behaviour, perception, emotions and cognition. Within this context, she is particularly interested in environmental psychology, the perceptual experience of architectural space, urban emotions and situated affectivity as well as exploring the brain-body-environment relationship through dynamic system theories. Her current research at CAN is focused on the study of medieval and contemporary emotions using texts and virtual reality environments.

Before joining the University of Cyprus, she was involved in research and teaching in several departments within the Faculty of the Built Environment at UCL and she received the UCL Education Award in 2018 in recognition of her teaching excellence. She has taught courses on research methodologies to postgraduate and doctoral students (Institute for Global Prosperity, UCL; Faculty of Engineering, University of Cyprus) as well as undergraduate courses focusing on virtual and augmented reality technologies as tools for studying architectural perception (Department of Architecture, Frederick University), among others.